Book Synopsis Time-Resolved FT-IR Spectroscopy of CO Hydrogenation OverSupported Ru Catalyst at 700K. by :
Download or read book Time-Resolved FT-IR Spectroscopy of CO Hydrogenation OverSupported Ru Catalyst at 700K. written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time-resolved FT-IR spectra of carbon monoxide hydrogenation over alumina-supported ruthenium were recorded on the millisecond timescale at 703 K using various H2 concentrations (1 atm total pressure). Adsorbed carbon monoxide was detected along with gas phase products methane (3016 and 1306 cm−1), water (sharp bands from 1900 - 1300 cm−1), and carbon dioxide (2348 cm−1). No other surface species were detected other than adsorbed carbon monoxide. The rate of formation of methane (2.5 ± 0.4 s−1) coincides with the rate of formation of carbon dioxide (3.4 ± 0.6 s−1), and bands due to water are observed to grow in over time. These results establish that methane and carbon dioxide originate from the same intermediate. The adsorbed carbon monoxide band is broad and unsymmetrical with a maximum at 2010 cm−1 in spectra observed at 36 ms that shifts over 3000 ms to 1960 cm−1 due to decreasing amounts of adsorbed carbon monoxide. Kinetic analysis of the adsorbed carbon monoxide band reveals that only a portion of the band can be temporally linked to gas phase products that we observe over the first 1000 ms of catalysis. This result suggests that we are observing dispersive kinetics, which is most likely due to heterogeneity of the surface environment.